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Chinese symbol for “privatization”

私有化
sī yǒu huà
privatization; to privatize

The closest CC-CEDICT match for privatization is 私有化 (sī yǒu huà), defined as: privatization; to privatize.

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Characters and stroke order

私 sī
personal, private, secret; selfish
radical 115 ⽲ · 7 strokes
有 yǒu
to have, to own, to possess; to exist
radical 74 ⽉ · 6 strokes
化 huà
to change, to convert, to reform; -ize
radical 21 ⼔ · 4 strokes

Other Chinese words for “privatization”

WordPinyinMeaning
民营化 (民營化)mín yíng huàprivatization

Related words

Other words that share a character with 私有化.

WordPinyinMeaning
私人sī rénprivate; personal
隐私 (隱私)yǐn sīsecrets; private business
走私zǒu sīto smuggle; to have an illicit affair
自私zì sīselfish; selfishness
私下sī xiàin private
私营 (私營)sī yíngprivately-owned; private
没有 (沒有)méi yǒuhaven't; hasn't
所有suǒ yǒuall; to have; to possess; to own
文化wén huàculture; civilization

See also: Japanese symbol for “privatization”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.